What (if anything) is your DC's private school doing to celebrating LGBT History Month?

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Anonymous wrote:sorry for typos..attempting to do a few things at once.. Also, realize that what I said could offend..not trying to really and fairly liberal actually. Our school is just doing this on and on and on gay push lately and it feels like the mission from being inclusive has turned into a political agenda and I don't love that--apparently this has angered a lot of the parents even my fellow liberalish parents. Oh well school has many other good things.

PP, I have to be blunt: If this were the situation at our school, we'd be out of there. I don't care about the "many other good things;" a lot of schools offer that.

We left a private over this. The school was "celebrating" any kid who would come forward and say they were gay. IMHO, these kids are too young to even know what they are yet and this just confuses them when other kids - whom I also think are too young to know - get an "award" for coming out. And then these poor "outed" kids go through puberty and discover what this is all about but meantime have been teased by the other kids for being gay. I don't see how this is productive. We have swung too far left with this issue and need to resettle.

Which school is this?

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Anonymous wrote:I believe St. Patrick's did something that caused a bit of an uproar.

What was that?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Gay marriage is a joke.

The IRS doesn't think so.

I've long thought there should be a grand bargain on gay marriage.

Let Congress legalize it nationwide. (Democrats happy).

Then tax at double the marriage penalty. (A tax that even the GOP would love. Especially if they called it a "sin-tax." )

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This whole thread is pathetic. Amazing what people say when anonymity is the norm. Shameful.

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Potomac.

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What is Potomac doing?

[Anonymous]

This post is idiotic. This is why people home-school -- They don't want schools forcing the moral views of teachers on their kids.

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Anonymous wrote:This post is idiotic. This is why people home-school -- They don't want schools forcing the moral views of teachers on their kids.

Some people pick religious schools (whether Catholic, Episcopal, Quaker, Evangelical Christian, Jewish) because they do indeed want a moral component to the education. It is why it is helpful to really check out the schools to see whether you like the given approach. If you don't feel there is any school out there that works for your values, yes, home-schooling is obviously a growing option.

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That's a little dramatic. Maybe a better thought is to push back when schools veer father off the mission. People need to really evaluate who is getting on the board and to also get involved when a head of school is replaced. I am saying this because very very few people really need to go the homeschooling route either because they want more morality or want no morality.

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Why can't someone do both? Try to change the school system AND home school until they get it right.

The reason so few people focus on changing the system is that their DC will be out before the changes take place. Only the teachers and administrators are in for the LONG run, which leads to a teachers first, kids second mentality.

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If any LGBT people are reading these comments and feeling discouraged, keep in mind that attitudes about LGBT people break down by age more than political affiliation or even religion. Younger people tend not to be bigots. We just need to wait awhile and the Neanderthals will die off.

In the meantime, all you bigots, please do send your kids to religious schools because the rest of us don't want you around our children. And yes, at non-religious schools, you will be ostracized for your offensive attitudes.

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Anonymous wrote:What is Potomac doing?

potomac school?

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What the hell is this http://www.potomacschool.org/voices/kristin/index.aspx

gay alliance? It's one thing to be respectful it's another to promote it .

Cross this school off my list . What are some other privates in McLean that are more grounded? Maybe safe some money and go to Langley.

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Anonymous wrote:If any LGBT people are reading these comments and feeling discouraged, keep in mind that attitudes about LGBT people break down by age more than political affiliation or even religion. Younger people tend not to be bigots. We just need to wait awhile and the Neanderthals will die off.

In the meantime, all you bigots, please do send your kids to religious schools because the rest of us don't want you around our children. And yes, at non-religious schools, you will be ostracized for your offensive attitudes.

Yes. But younger people eventually become older people. And this is one opinion that does change over time, when they have their own kids.

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Not old and not a biggot but not interested in a clearly political agenda being pushed. The percentage of gay families is not even 1 percent and suddenly gay families need to be part of multiple school conversations esp with young children. It is confusing. I am pro gay marriage so I cannot imagine what someone who isn't pro gay marriage thinks.